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May
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood’s Cold War
John Sbardellati (History, University of Waterloo, Ontario) Thursday, May 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the 1940s and 1950s, J. Edgar Hoover’s F.B.I. conducted a sweeping investigation of the motion picture industry. Convinced that film content endangered national security, Hoover’s G-men, joined by conservative...
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